Saw The Predator. It was fine. Not great, but not too bad. I had fun. I went in expecting a action movie with some gore and jokes and that's what I got. Which I guess may be a problem, but to me The Predator suffers the same problems(to worse extent) that the Alien movies do in that the monster is not scary anymore. Unless you're getting an intense reinvention I'm not sure what you do beyond make another Pred movie, which this is. So that may be good and bad at the same time. The cast and characters are likable and that helps. I don't hold the original up highly, but again the cast is what makes that movie. As well as the tense hunt. here the hunt seems rushed and tacked on, but maybe that describes the movie in a nutshell. It's rushed, not really allowing time for it to breathe or to know the characters. The original does, but here the movie takes it too far. To the point where parts of the movie seem missing and you'll wonder how did they get that, where did those characters go, and how did they get there? The editing is pretty bad often leading to those questions.
Still it's fun and the violence is good. The evolution plot is dumb, but whatever. It's just another Pred movie, but one that knows how to have fun. Which i would say is missing from the other movies in this series.
But since you know Shane Black is in on the joke of the movie you kind of expect him to be a little bit smarter and go beyond that. I don't think he does.
